Deng Ziqi

essential information

Gloria Tang Tsz Kei, born on August 16, 1991 in Shanghai, China, moved to Hong Kong at the age of 4. She is a female singer, songwriter and music producer in Hong Kong, China.

In 2008, he launched the single "wait for one other", which officially made his debut; in the same year, he released his first Music EP "G.E.M." which won the gold medal for newcomers at the major awards ceremonies in Hong Kong. In 2011, she became the youngest female singer to sing at the Hong Kong Stadium. In 2012, with the music album "xposed", she won the IFPI Hong Kong record sales award, the annual highest sales female singer award, the highest sales Mandarin Record Award, and was shortlisted for the best Mandarin Female Singer Award of the 24th Taiwan Golden Melody Award. In 2014, he won the runner up in the finals of Hunan Satellite TV's reality singing show "I am a singer Season 2" and the most popular Asian Artist Award of the 27th KCa American children's Choice Award.

In 2015, he appeared in the 2015 CCTV Spring Festival Gala to play and sing the song "how far should we be together", and ranked 11th in the 2015 Forbes China celebrity list. In 2016, he was selected into Forbes' list of "the most potential musicians under the age of 30 in the world"; in the same year, he won MTV European Music Award for best artist in mainland China and Hong Kong. In 2018, she became the first female artist in Asia to receive NASA's "science breakthrough Award"; later, she was selected into the "top 100 most influential women in the world" list released by BBC. In 2019, the single beyond light years will become the most popular Chinese song on YouTube. In 2020, he won the jury award of the 31st Taiwan Golden Melody Award with his music album "skyscraper zoo"; in the same year, he won the best Asian Artist Award of 2020mnet Asian Music Award.

Early experience

Born in Shanghai, Deng Ziqi grew up in a musical family. His father is from Hong Kong, his mother is a vocal music graduate of Shanghai Conservatory of music. His grandmother teaches singing, his uncle plays violin, and his grandfather plays Saxophone in the orchestra. Influenced by his family, Deng Ziqi loved music and singing since he was a child.

When Deng Ziqi was 5 years old, he began to compose music and fill in lyrics. When he was 7 years old, he participated in the performance of educational TV. At 13, he completed the Royal piano examination band 8 and co filmed with Eason Chan on the advertisement of moon cake charity sale.

Deng Ziqi primary school is a member of the poetry class of the Chinese Christian Church Union primary school on Prince Edward Road West, Kowloon, Hong Kong. She studied in Zhenguang women's College in middle school. She has been participating in various singing competitions since the first grade of middle school. She has won five competitions in one year.

In 2006, 14-year-old Deng Ziqi took part in the joint school singing competition of spiceitup and won the championship. He was invited by manager Tan to sign a contract for Hummingbird Music. However, due to his studies, he became a singer at the age of 16. However, Hummingbird Music only has more than a dozen employees, so Deng Ziqi, who has limited traditional media channels, has been recording his growth on microblog and other we media since his debut and communicating directly with his fans. After his debut, he was admitted to the Hong Kong Academy for performing arts, majoring in acoustics. Later, due to the increasing workload, she gave up the acoustics course of the Hong Kong Academy for performing arts in the first half of 2009.

Acting experience

On July 10, 2008, he released his first solo "wait for him", which officially entered the performing arts circle at the age of 16. On October 16, the first Music EP "G.E.M." was released, which included five songs including "where didugo" and "Sleeping Princess". In the same year, she won the most popular female newcomer (Gold Award) of the top ten golden songs and the most promising newcomer (Silver Award) of the 31st top ten Chinese Golden Songs.

On January 1, 2009, she won the "Golden Award for female singer of the new force in the world of Chizha" presented by the award ceremony of Chizha pop chart, becoming the first underage winner of the award. In February, he co starred in the comedy "love comes out of the cat". On October 27, he released his first music album "18...", and then won the IFPI Hong Kong record sales award "top 10 Guangdong record sales award" and "top 10 Local Singer sales award" with this album. From November 20 to 22, three g.e.m.18live 2009 concerts were held at the Kowloon Bay International Exhibition and Trade Center. In December, he went to Toronto, Canada to hold his first overseas concert.

On April 7, 2010, he went to Taiwan for a 10 day publicity campaign. On May 14, the Taiwan version of the album "18..." was released. On June 27, the radio Premiere of the album "18..." was held in Guangzhou. On July 30, he and Mr. held the "widening challenge arena concert". On October 28, the music album mysecret was released. The physical version of the album won platinum record certification one week after it appeared on the market, and set a record that the youngest female singer in Hong Kong won the first week sales champion of three major record lines at the same time. Then, she won the IFPI Hong Kong record sales award "top 10 Guangdong record sales award" and "Xincheng Guoyu power most popular album Award" at the Xincheng Guoyu power award ceremony And so on.

In 2011, the G.E.M. get everybody moving tour was launched, while Deng Ziqi held a total of five concerts in the Hong Kong Stadium, becoming the youngest female singer to go to the red chamber to sing.

In March 2012, Deng Ziqi, on behalf of Hong Kong, held three tour concerts "Asia Music connection 2012" with Japanese singer sunshine Zhiren and Taiwan singer Tang Yuzhe with the theme of "Asian triangle". In April, the Guangdong concert tour officially opened. June 27, in iTunesLive@HongKong , singing "lucky" with Jason mayez, which was rearranged and lyrics by Deng Ziqi. On July 5, she released the music album "xposed" and became the first Chinese female singer to release a film in iTunes. Later, with this album, she won the IFPI Hong Kong record sales award "annual highest sales Mandarin album Award" and "annual highest sales local female singer award", and was shortlisted for the 24th Taiwan Golden Melody Award "Best Mandarin Female Singer Award", becoming the youngest finalist of the award.

In March 2013, the best of G.E.M. 2008-2012 was released. In addition, the mainland version of the best of G.E.M. 2008-2012 was launched the following year, with more than 100000 copies sold in the first month. In April, "g.e.m.x.x.x.live World Tour" was officially launched. The tour lasted for two years, covering 49 cities around the world, with a total of 73 performances, breaking the record of 59 single performances of female singers in the Chinese music world, attracting nearly 800000 people to watch. In October, he launched live piano session, a live piano recording series, and later won the "top 20 most popular Golden Melody Awards of the year" and "most popular singer songwriter awards" presented by the award ceremony of global Chinese song list.

In 2014, he took part in the singing reality show "I'm a singer Season 2" of Hunan Satellite TV, and finally won the second place in the finals. On March 3, he became the first Hong Kong artist to break through 1 million likes on Facebook; on March 31, he won the 27th KCa children's Choice Award "most popular Asian Artist Award". On April 28, she became the spokesperson of "dove girl". On May 4, he was ranked 91st on the 2014 Forbes China celebrity list. On July 10, the theme song "no time after meeting" with the same name for the film "no time after meeting" went online; on July 11, a solo concert was held in Huanglong stadium, becoming the first singer to temporarily add to the performance in Hangzhou. On August 15, he released the adapted single "like you"; on August 18, he signed a contract to speak for Maybelline; on August 28, he became the first Chinese singer to play more than 100 million yuan on YouTube channel. On September 20, he became the youngest speaker of CCTV youth TV open class "open lecture"; later, he released the adapted single "tornado"; on September 30, he became the first global Chinese image ambassador of Xcor (Huanyu Asia), and went to Amsterdam, the Netherlands for space training as the first Chinese star to go into space next month. In October, it appeared on the cover of the October issue of the magazine cosmopolitan, which was the first cover of its "five major magazines" in the fashion circle. On December 10, Deng Ziqi's wax figure entered Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Hong Kong, becoming the youngest artist to enter the museum. In addition, her songs have been on demand for more than 9.8 billion times on a music platform in China.

In January 2015, she became the youngest cover girl of the magazine Harper's Bazaar. On February 18, he participated in the 2015 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, playing and singing the song "how far should we be together". On April 10, she became tagheuer's global brand image ambassador. Previously, CNBC, the US financial media, called her "one of the most popular Asian singers.". On May 12, he was ranked 11th in the 2015 Forbes China celebrity list; on May 14, he became the first "dream partner" of Alibaba entertainment treasure; on May 19, he confirmed to join the reality TV show "fast forward Season 2" of Shenzhen satellite TV; later, he became the billboard Radio China interview column "the big intervi"

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